| Edward Harley - 1735 - 798 pages
...faveth fuch as be of a CONTRITE SPIRIT. Pf. xxxix. 5. Behold thou haft made my Days as an Hand' breadth, and mine Age is as NOTHING before thee: Verily every Man at his beft State is altogether VANITY. I>. When thou with Rebukes doft con-eft Man for INIQUITY, thou makeft... | |
| Benjamin Whichcote - Theology - 1751 - 418 pages
...mine end ; and the meafiire of my days what it is : that I may know how frail I am. Beholdi thou haft made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man, at his b.'/t ejlate, is altogether vanity. Surely every man walk' eth in a vain /hew, furely they are difquieted... | |
| William Sherlock - Death - 1751 - 326 pages
...Life ever fince; which is fo very fhort, that David might well fay, Behold thou haft made my days as a handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his bcJi eflate is altogether •vanity. Pfal. xxxix. 5. I mail not fcrupuloufly enquire into th« Reafon... | |
| William Braikenridge - Sermons, English - 1764 - 378 pages
...God be with him. Page i SERMON II. On the Shortnefs of Human Life. PSALM xxxix. 5. Behold, thou haft made my days as an handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing hefore thee : verily every man at his bejljlate is altogether vanity. p. 23 SERMON III. The Eternity... | |
| Samuel Hoole - Bible - 1786 - 348 pages
...Jlars for ever. ON THE SHORTNESS AND VANITY OF LIFE. SERMON VII. PSALM xxxix. 5. Behold, thou haft made my days as an handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee ; verify every man, at his bejt Jiate, is altogether vanity. THE fhortnefs of life is become fo SERM.... | |
| Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...what it is -.'-that I may know how frail I am. 1 5 Behold, thou haft made my days as an hand breadth : and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his beft ftate is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain mew : furely they are... | |
| Missions - 1810 - 582 pages
...days- This measure, this short dttrution, he seems to allude to in the following verse : • — ( Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing "before thee !' It becomes us often to consider how near we are to the end of life. The measure of our days is determined... | |
| Old Humphrey - London (England) - 1799 - 372 pages
...make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth;...every man at his best state is altogether vanity," Psalm xxxix. 4, 5. THE MUSEUM AT THE INDIA HOUSE, THE stranger, in visiting either the museum at the... | |
| Old Humphrey - Authors, English - 1799 - 338 pages
...make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth;...every man at his best state is altogether vanity,' Psa. xxxix. 4, 5." On completing his articles of apprenticeship, Mr. Mogridge married Miss Elizabeth... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1802 - 460 pages
...vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanifheth away." Pfal. xxxix. 5. " Behold, thou haft made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee.'' — I fhall only inquire, VI. WHY are ye idle all the day ? Will no lefs than all the day ferve ? May... | |
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